David Skidmore received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and taught at Hamilton College and the University of Notre Dame before arriving at Drake in 1989. During the 1996-97 academic year, he taught at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China. He also served as a Fulbright Scholar based at the University of Hong Kong in 2010-2011. He has taught at Rollins College and at the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China). Skidmore serves as Director of the Principal Center for Global Citizenship, the Nelson Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs and the Global and Comparative Public Health concentration. He is author, co-author or editor of six books, including a monograph titled "The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy" (Routledge, 2011), and has published numerous articles or chapters in various academic journals and books, including Political Science Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis and International Studies Perspectives. His editorial writing has appeared in Fortune, U.S. News and World Report, Salon, The Conversation and The Des Moines Register. He recently published a co-authored textbook titled "International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Wealth in a Globalizing World" (Routledge, 2017). He founded the Drake University Social Science Journal.